How to use Google Dorks for Link Building
We all know the importance of links in SEO. More links pointing to your site means better ranking in search results. But building links is not an easy task. People use things likes guest posting, using dofollow social bookmarking sites , commenting on other blogs etc to build links. Building links by commenting on others blog is the easiest way to build links. But you need to find the right sites for commenting, and Google can help you to find out such right websites for commenting. With the proper use of Google dorks you can find quality blogs for commenting under your niche.
Google dork is the term which is very common among people dealing with penetration testing. But an average internet user is generally not familiar with this term. Google dorks are the combination of special search parameters, that can be used to extract some valuable information from Google.
In this tutorial we will be using Google dorks to find sites for link building. You can find some online tools that uses Google dorks to find blogs for commenting, but I suggest you to learn and do it manually so that you can use it as per your needs. Before we go ahead let us take a look at important Google terms
Site: This term is used for searching things from particular websites. If you search site:yourwebsiteurl then Google will display you results only from your site only.
inurl: This parameter filters the result based on the keywords in the url. If you search inurl:blogging then google will display only those search results which has the word blogging in the url
Keywords in quotes: When you search by putting your keywords in quotes, goggle will display only those pages which exactly matches the keywords you have put in quotes.
Finding Commentluv Premium blogs
All the blogs that uses CommentLuv has the text “This blog uses premium CommentLuv” So we are going to put this text in quotes. To find premium comment luv blogs you can use the below search query
Your Keyword “This blog uses premium CommentLuv” -”The version of CommentLuv on this site is no longer supported.”
Finding Keywordluv enabled blogs
Every keywordluv enabled blog has the text “Enter YourName@YourKeywords”. So you can search something like this to find keywordluv enabled blog
Yourkeyword ”Enter YourName@YourKeywords”
Finding Intense Debate enabled blogs
Intense debate blogs allows html in the comment. You can you use your url in the intense debate profile also. You can use the following search query to find intense debate enabled blogs
YourKeyword”if you have a website, link to it here” “post a new comment”
Finding .edu site
Not all .edu sites have the option to comment. We need to check if the comments are enabled or not. To check this we will use additional words in quotes. The query will be something like this
Yourkeyword site:.edu inurl:blog “post a comment” -”you must be logged in”
Finding sites that allows HTML tags
Sites that allows html tags in comments are very useful for link building. You can just comment with your link in the html tag to build links. The syntax for search query is
Yourkeyword ”Allowed HTML tags:”
Finding Express engine powered forums
Express ion engine powered forum lets you add links in the signature, the link are dofollow by default. To find the Expression engine enabled forums you can use the below search query.
yourkeyword “powered by expressionengine”
These are some Google dorks that you can use for link building. Using the above dorks you can also create your own dork to find other relevant websites of your use.
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That is a nice list of all the essential footprints that are needed to find blogs for commenting.
I myself use some popular commenter’s name in double quotes and I follow those blogs so most of my research is already done
Keral Patel recently posted…How To Get The Most Out Of Your PPC Landing Page
here the listed tricks are not the google dork instead of that you have given us the keywords to find out releted blogs using these types of commenting scripts. even though i think they are quite useful.
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Hi Abhishek and Sahil,
Great Post.
It’s my first time hearing the term Google Dorks and it is interesting to learn how to find other blogs to comment on and build links.
Thanks again for the great tutorial.
Be Blessed,
Neamat
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Hi Abhishek,
This is a great share and it will enable to get most out of commenting efforts. How true – everything is there, just learn to search it!
I’m a bit confused about IntenseDebate comments. Do the links from there worth. As I know, it renders comments through Javascript and people say that Google Crawlers do not see Javascripts.
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Hey Abhishek.
I’m like a mad man in the case of link building these days. This month will be full of it because of my strategy part. Thanks a lot for sharing and adding it up. I wonder why I didn’t hear about this earlier.
And wouldn’t it be effective if you remove all those border from your Adsense ads? You can double your revenue if you blend your ads with your blog.
Good luck
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Great information. I am really surprised to know that I missed such an important concept of link building. Will utilize the keywords for finding desired blogs. Thanks a lot for the great tips. Bookmarking!
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Really a useful article, i didn’t hear about it before and wonder how can i miss such a important tools as almost used all the tools related to link building. i will surely give a try do this and will share the results. Many thanks for this useful article.
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good explain. I follow every step as you say
thank you for share with us
very usefull information, i finish to build link with mix google dorks from this tutorial, Thank you. Keep Share
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Well, actually I have known this techniques from ebook but I lose the ebook , and from this article I know again And bookmarking this technique for not losing this technique again.
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Good explanation of the procedure. Is there any way that is easier for link building ?? Thanks,Sam
Hi Abhishek,
This is unique Article, Actually i have already used all tools but I have not heard about this tools . this tools is releated to link building. but i will follow of your steps. and i hope we will get +ve results. Thanks to telling me new article.
I was using these dorks from a long time but never how that we call it as Google dorks
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thanks sir for this wonderful tips of link building. It was not so easy for me before reading this article. Bundle of thanks to you.
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its really such a great post, well written, very informative. keep it up
Thank you
Blog commenting is an effective way to get more traffic to your blog posts. Thanks for sharing these interesting tricks for searching blogs for commenting. Will try these tricks soon.
Lalita Bisht recently posted…8 Tips For Building Your Brand Online
Thanks Lalita for dropping by on my blog and yes commenting is very much effective
Google Dorks I wasn’t aware of this!
Karshim Kanwar@TechnosAmigos recently posted…Asus Transformer Prime TF700T Android 4.2 Jelly Bean Update FOTA
Thanks Karshim for dropping by my site, Also you try the “Google Dorks”